The City of Mirrors

The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


A most satisfying ending to an amazing trilogy--a hybrid of genres--science fantasy, vampires, adventure, quest, apocalyptic. Light and dark and the final battle, between Amy, the Girl from Nowhere, and Fanning, Zero, The First, the Father of the Twelve, a battle haunted by "the anguish that shattered his human life" (front cover).

I won't spoil the ending, except that the reader does know humanity survives, from the reports of the Indo-Australian Republic that have been shared since the trilogy began. How and what price is another matter.

Cronin said in an interview that ultimately this trilogy--with all its darkness and death and blood and pain and torture--is about love.

Yes, it is. This, I think, is what it means to be human.



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